adverse fate
Example Sentences
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My lot has been to meet The bitter mixed with transient sweet; To struggle on, in toil and care, The tide of adverse fate to bear.
From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Rebekah Smith
I confined myself to the examination of those who may be properly designated the helpless victims of adverse fate.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
But it was not in a boy like Desmond, young, strong, high spirited, tamely to fold his hands before adverse fate.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
How many sudden tempests have broken over his bent back, how much adverse fate has fallen on his head, on his house, on his country!
From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee
My dear Madam, there are chains which hold us as the cable holds the ship; and, in their sure restraint, we safely ride through all the howling blasts of adverse fate.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various
